Computer Applications II CS200 Periods 3, 6, 7


Monday January 3, 2011
Objective: Create a bar graph from a table of your own data.
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Make a table of the estimated number of hours you slept each night during the vacation.
Excel Filename: MyVacationSleep.xlsx

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Excel Filename: MyVacationSleep.xlsx
Use your own data and the appropriate days of the week to make a column graph out of your table.
Word Filename: MyVacationSleep.docx
Create a Word document like the example, but make sure it includes your own actual data for the appropriate days.
Use different fonts, colors, etc.
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Print when finished.
Upload to your gaggle digital locker.
Put your red binder to the back of the room and return to your seat until the bell rings.


Thursday December 23, 2010
Objective: Create a greeting card in Microsoft Publisher.
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Publisher Filename: HolidayCard.pub
Use Microsoft Publisher to create a Christmas card or other greeting card for someone.
Get permission from Miss Hangen to print it.
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Upload to your gaggle digital locker.



Tuesday & Wednesday December 21 & 22, 2010
Objective: Create a bar graph from a table.
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Use an Excel file with a table of data or chart to look for the icons.
Paper and Pencil: Tell which menu the icon is in of the 3 choices of Chart Tools menus: Design, Layout, or Format.
1. Change Chart Type
2. Legend
3. Shape Fill
4. Word Art Styles
5. Axis Titles
6. Select Data
7. Chart Layouts
8. Chart Title
9. Data Labels
10. Axes
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Excel Filename: SleepTime.xlsx
Word Filename: SleepTime.docx
Follow the directions. You may format your chart differently, but make sure it has all the elements of the one in the directions.
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Print when finished.
Upload to your gaggle digital locker.
Put your red binder to the back of the room and return to your seat until the bell rings.



Monday December 20, 2010
Objective: Understand editing within a spreadsheet.
Objective: Compare and contrast values and labels in a worksheet.
Objective: Describe ways to enter, edit, and format data in a worksheet.
Objective: Evaluate the benefit of printing options.
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Get your red binder and open to the 3 new pages in the back titled, Basic Editing Functions in Spreadsheets.
Open your BasicEditing.docx document.
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Word Filename: BasicEditing.docx
Answer these questions in a Word document. Include your standard header and footer and examples.
Finish answering questions 5 through 8 by referring to the pages in your binder and thinking about your experience using Excel.
5. What is a print area and how do you set it?
6. What appears in a cell when it is too narrow for a number? What can be done do see the number?
7. How can a spreadsheet be used at home?
8. How can a spreadsheet be used in school?
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Upload to your gaggle digital locker.
Put your red binder to the back of the room and return to your seat until the bell rings.


Thursday & Friday December 16 & 17, 2010
Objective: Understand editing within a spreadsheet.
Objective: Compare and contrast values and labels in a worksheet.
Objective: Describe ways to enter, edit, and format data in a worksheet.
Objective: Evaluate the benefit of printing options.
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Get your red binder and open to the 3 new pages in the back titled, Basic Editing Functions in Spreadsheets.
Open your BasicEditing.docx document.
Create an Excel spreadsheet with the filename, BasicEditingCharts.xlsx that looks like this.
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Word Filename: BasicEditing.docx
Answer these questions in a Word document. Include your standard header and footer and examples.
Excel Filename: BasicEditingCharts.xlsx
Create a column graph and a pie chart in BasicEditingCharts.xlsx and include them with your answer for #4.
  1. What are the 3 types of data that you can enter in a worksheet?
  2. What is AutoFill, and how is it done?
  3. What is another name for a chart?
  4. What are the purposes of 3 of the types of charts? Include pictures.
  5. What is a print area and how do you set it?
  6. What appears in a cell when it is too narrow for a number? What can be done do see the number?
  7. How can a spreadsheet be used at home?
  8. How can a spreadsheet be used in school?
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Upload to your gaggle digital locker.
Put your red binder to the back of the room and return to your seat until the bell rings.

Monday-Wednesday December 13-15, 2010
Objective: Understand editing within a spreadsheet.
Objective: Compare and contrast values and labels in a worksheet.
Objective: Describe ways to enter, edit, and format data in a worksheet.
Objective: Evaluate the benefit of printing options.
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Get your red binder and open to the 3 new pages in the back titled, Basic Editing Functions in Spreadsheets.
Open your BasicEditing.docx document.
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Word Filename: BasicEditing.docx
Answer these questions in a Word document. Include your standard header and footer and examples.
  1. What are the 3 types of data that you can enter in a worksheet?
  2. What is AutoFill, and how is it done?
  3. What is another name for a chart?
  4. What are the purposes of 3 of the types of charts?
  5. What is a print area and how do you set it?
  6. What appears in a cell when it is too narrow for a number? What can be done do see the number?
  7. How can a spreadsheet be used at home?
  8. How can a spreadsheet be used in school?
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Upload to your gaggle digital locker.
Put your red binder to the back of the room and return to your seat until the bell rings.

Friday December 10, 2010
Objective: Read about news in computing.
Objective: Summarize nonfiction.
Objective: Do a random act of kindness.
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Paper and Pencil:
1. On the lined paper write the 2 computer definitions given for hacker at http://dictionary.com.

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Random Hacks of Kindness is a play on words taken from the concept of Random Acts of Kindness which may have come about to bring happy moments to those in a world where there are often random acts of violence.

Read: Read the packet titled, Random Hacks of Kindness
Paper and Pencil:
2. On the lined paper, write a summary of what you read in sentences.
3. Also write what you might put in a blog entry sharing your thoughts about the event.
http://www.randomactsofkindness.org/

Finish back work.

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Paper and Pencil:
4. What will you do as a random act of kindess (or a random hack of kindness) over the next few days?
Turn in your lined paper with your name on it.
Turn in the stapled packet titled. Random Hacks of Kindness so it can be used for other classes.

Thursday December 9, 2010
Objective: Understand editing within a spreadsheet.
Objective: Compare and contrast values and labels in a worksheet.
Objective: Describe ways to enter, edit, and format data in a worksheet.
Objective: Evaluate the benefit of printing options.
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Get your red binder and open to the 3 new pages in the back titled, Basic Editing Functions in Spreadsheets.
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Word Filename: BasicEditing.docx
Answer these questions in a Word document. Include your standard header and footer and examples.
  1. What are the 3 types of data that you can enter in a worksheet?
  2. What is AutoFill, and how is it done?
  3. What is another name for a chart?
  4. What are the purposes of 3 of the types of charts?
  5. What is a print area and how do you set it?
  6. What appears in a cell when it is too narrow for a number? What can be done do see the number?
  7. How can a spreadsheet be used at home?
  8. How can a spreadsheet be used in school?
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Upload to your gaggle digital locker.
Put your red binder to the back of the room and return to your seat until the bell rings.

Wednesday December 8, 2010
Objective: Understand editing within a spreadsheet.
Objective: Compare and contrast values and labels in a worksheet.
Objective: Describe ways to enter, edit, and format data in a worksheet.
Objective: Evaluate the benefit of printing options.
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Get your red binder and open to the 3 new pages in the back titled, Basic Editing Functions in Spreadsheets.
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Read and Mark Up: Basic Editing Functions in Spreadsheets
Keep these questions in mind while reading the 3 page document.
  1. What are the 3 types of data that you can enter in a worksheet?
  2. What is AutoFill, and how is it done?
  3. What is another name for a chart?
  4. What are the purposes of 3 of the types of charts?
  5. What is a print area and how do you set it?
  6. What appears in a cell when it is too narrow for a number? What can be done do see the number?
  7. How can a spreadsheet be used at home?
  8. How can a spreadsheet be used in school?
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Put your red binder to the back of the room and return to your seat until the bell rings.

Monday, Tuesday December 6,7, 2010
Objective: Collaborate to complete a Google spreadsheet.
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Go to http://Google.com and use the more drop down menu to choose documents.
Create a Google account with your Gaggle email address. Make sure to remove the check by Stay_signed_in.GIF
After Miss Hangen unblocks the email that Google sent to your Gaggle email address, verify your account by clicking on the link in your Gaggle email.
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Login to your Google docs account.
Click on Shared with me and double click on the Google spreadsheet, States Period 3.
If you get a blocked message, close the message and click on Create New and pick one. Close it and try the shared document, States Period 3 again. It should open this time.
Research the states, their populations, capitol cities, and nickname and fill in the Google spreadsheet. It should go pretty fast because everyone in the class is working on the same spreadsheet.

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Log out of your Google account.

Wednesday - Friday December 1-3, 2010
Objective: Demonstrate 3 ways to include a spreadsheet in a Word document.
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Get into your Gaggle digital locker. Save Basics.xlsx to your desktop and open it.
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Word Filename: Basics.docx
Read and follow the directions on pages 1 through 3of Putting a Spreadsheet in a Word Document.
When finished, print.
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Save to the desktop, upload to Gaggle, delete off the desktop, empty recycle bin.

Monday & Tuesday November 29 & 30, 2010
Objective: Create a spreadsheet that demonstrates the use of formulas.
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Paper and Pencil:
Write formulas for cells A3 and B3.
Cell A3 must contain the product of the contents of cells A1 and A2.
Cell B3 must contain the quotient of the contents of cells B1 and B2.
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Excel Filename: Basics.xlsx
Read and follow the directions on pages 1 through 21 of Excel Basics.
It guides you through creating a 1 page Excel file.
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Save to the desktop, upload to Gaggle, delete off the desktop, empty recycle bin.


Monday & Tuesday November 22 & 23, 2010
Objective: Use x-y coordinate system and random numbers.
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Discuss things you do over Thanksgiving weekend.
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Scratch Filename: Thanksgiving.sb
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Save to the desktop, upload to Gaggle, delete off the desktop, empty recycle bin.


Thursday & Friday November 18 & 19, 2010
Objective: Determine if it is ok to divide.
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Finish ExcelNotes.docx
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Scratch Program: Divide.sb
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Save to the desktop, upload to Gaggle, delete off the desktop, empty recycle bin.


Wednesday November 17, 2010
Objective: Review spreadsheet tools including the cursor/pointer shapes.
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Get into Gaggle. Save your ExcelNotes.docx to the desktop.

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Right click to save this picture to the desktop and use it to copy and paste the cursor/pointers into the chart that you will create on page 4 of ExcelNotes.docx.


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Get permission to print your finished document from Miss Hangen.
Save to the desktop, upload to Gaggle, delete off the desktop, empty recycle bin.


Tuesday November 16, 2010
Objective: Review spreadsheet tools including those on the formula menu ribbon, data menu ribbon, review menu ribbon, and view menu ribbon.

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Get into Gaggle. Save your ExcelNotes.docx to the desktop.

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Continue working on creating this document.
Page 3 shown here.
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Save to the desktop, upload to Gaggle, delete off the desktop, empty recycle bin.


Monday November 15, 2010
Objective: Review spreadsheet tools including those on the home ribbon, insert ribbon, header and footers tools, and pay layout ribbon.

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Get into Gaggle. Save your ExcelNotes.docx to the desktop.

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Continue working on creating this document.
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Save to the desktop, upload to Gaggle, delete off the desktop, empty recycle bin.

Friday November 12, 2010
Objective: Review spreadsheet tools.

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Display your ComparisonShopping.xlsx file on the screen for Miss Hangen to check.

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Word Filename: ExcelNotes.docx
Include your standard header and footer.
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Save to the desktop, upload to Gaggle, delete off the desktop, empty recycle bin.

Thursday November 11, 2010
Objectives: Use a spreadsheet to comparison shop. Use autofill.

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Paper and Pencil:
Explain how you would go about comparing prices for a product that you would buy online.
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Excel Filename: ComparisonShopping.xlsx
Layout - Orientation - Landscape
Use AutoFill to number from 1 to 5.
Use a formula to calculate the total.
Copy the formula to the other cells by dragging from the AutoFill square at the lower right hand corner of the cell.
Include your standard header and footer.

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Save to the desktop, upload to Gaggle, delete off the desktop, empty recycle bin.